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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Fear Forget Goodness Philosophy Teacher Wisdom
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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Ability Color Culture Vision World
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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Greatness Imagination Live Tradition
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Demand Give Share
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Change Family Metaphor Understand
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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Death Parents Realization Return Time
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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Believe Learning Myself Talk Understand
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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Criticism Growth Mistake Oneself Question Regret
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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Dance Important Improvisation Join Learning Ourselves Responsible Step

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